The media has, over the last several months, devoted some coverage to the thrust oscillation problems and other issues with the Ares 1. That brings to mind two questions about projects like these. How does an outside observer know if a project like this is succeeding or failing?
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The 50th anniversary of NASA offers a tremendous hook for publicity for the space agency, an opportunity to celebrate what it has accomplished and—perhaps more importantly, given the transitions the agency is undergoing—what it plans to do in the future.
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Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the Moon, has issued a stark warning that America must invest now in the space agency Nasa, or surrender leadership of space exploration to Russia and China.
NASA’s Orion shuttle successor is at the heart of the Constellation plan to return to the moon. Credit: NASA.
CAPE CANAVERAL — NASA will start repairing serious damage at Kennedy Space Center’s launch pad 39A today, but the work isn’t expected to delay the planned Oct. 8 launch of a Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.
WASHINGTON: Martian dirt was apparently good enough for asparagus to grow in, NASA scientists said yesterday as they announced the results of a soil analysis collected by the US Phoenix Mars lander.
NASA will start repairing serious damage at Kennedy Space Center’s launch pad 39A today, but the work isn’t expected to delay the planned Oct. 8 launch of a Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.
Shuttle program managers today approved a plan to strip away fire bricks from damaged sections of the “flame trench” at launch pad 39A, to erect a steel grid over the exposed concrete back wall and to spray on a thick coating of heat-resistant Fondu Fyre to protect the structure from super-hot shuttle booster exhaust.
NASA will start fixing a damaged Florida launch pad Friday in preparation for the October launch of space shuttle Atlantis in a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
NASA settled Thursday on a $2.7 million repair plan to keep a 40-year-old shuttle launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida intact until the winged space ships are retired in 2010.
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